NA-23 Mardan-III (این اے-23، مردان-3) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency was formerly known as NA-10 (Mardan-II) from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-22 (Mardan-III) after the delimitation in 2018 and to NA-23 (Mardan-III) after the delimitation in 2022.[2]

NA-23 Mardan-III
Constituency
for the National Assembly of Pakistan
RegionTakht Bhai Tehsil (partly) and Mardan Tehsil (partly) of Mardan District
Electorate471,184 [1]
Current constituency
PartyIndependent
Member(s)Ali Muhammad Khan
Created fromNA-22 (Mardan-III)

Members of Parliament edit

1977–2002: NA-10 Mardan-II edit

Election Member Party
1977 Maulana Habib Gul PNA
1985 Haji Nadir Shah Independent
1988 Maulana Shaheed Ahmed JUI (DG)
1990 M. Aslam Khan Khattak IND
1993 Maulana Shaheed Ahmed MDM
1997 Shams-ur-Rehamn Qasim ANP

2002–2018: NA-9 Mardan-II edit

Election Member Party
2002 Maulana Muhammad Qasim MMA
2008
2013 Ali Muhammad Khan PTI

2018-2022: NA-22 Mardan-III edit

Election Member Party
2018 Ali Muhammad Khan PTI

2023-present: NA-23 Mardan-III edit

Election Member Party
2024 Ali Muhammad Khan IND

Elections since 2002 edit

2002 general election edit

2002 General Election: NA-10 (Mardan-II) [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  MMA Maulana Muhammad Qasim 69,726 79.51
  PPPP Rahim Dad Khan 14,541 16.58
  PML-Q Sher Muhammad Khan 2,858 3.26
Independent Jehanzeb Salik 566 0.65
Majority 55,185 62.93
Turnout 87,691 39.95
MMA gain from ANP

A total of 1,713 votes were rejected.

2008 general election edit

2008 General Election: NA-10 (Mardan-II) [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  MMA Maulana Mohammad Qasim 29,279 31.17 -48.34
  PPPP Nawabzada Abdul Qadir Khan 23,138 24.63 +8.05
  ANP Mohammed Farooq Khan 21,115 22.48
  PML Naseem Muhammad Khan 6,774 7.21
  PPP (S) Jalal Khan Khattak 6,012 6.40
  PML-N Muhammad Shoaib Khan 3,782 4.03
Independent Atta Ullah 1,898 2.02
Awami Himayat Tehreek Tahir Iqbal 1,732 1.84
  MQM Zair Ullah Khan 201 0.22
Majority 6,141 6.54
Turnout 93,931 37.76 -2.19
MMA hold Swing

A total of 2,928 votes were rejected.

2013 general election edit

2013 General Election: NA-10 (Mardan-II) [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  PTI Ali Muhammad Khan 46,531 29.55
  JUI-F Maulana Muhammad Qasim 39,269 24.94
  ANP Muhammad Farooq Khan 19,436 12.34
  JI Sultan Muhammad 19,107 12.13
  PPPP Nawabzada Abdul Qadir Khan 15,345 9.75 -14.88
  PML-N Naseem Muhammad Khan 11,491 7.30 +3.27
JUP-N Muhammad Fayaz 3,426 2.18
Tehreek-e-Pasmanada Awam Abdul Ghaffar Khan Mohmand 1,638 1.04
TTP Qazi Aslam Khan 724 0.46
  MQM Maulana Noor ul Haq 170 0.11 -0.11
  PML Zardali Khan 166 0.10 -7.11
APML Yar Badshah 160 0.10
Majority 7,262 4.61
Turnout 157,463 51.00 +13.24
PTI gain from MMA

A total of 4,834 votes were rejected.

2018 general election edit

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

General election 2018: NA-22 (Mardan-III)[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTI Ali Muhammad Khan 58,577 29.13  0.42
MMA Maulana Muhammad Qasim 56,318 28.01  9.06
PML(N) Jamshid Khan 36,625 18.22  10.92
ANP Malak Amaan Khan 27,104 13.48  1.14
Others Others (three candidates) 16,839 8.38
Turnout 201,057 51.59  0.59
Rejected ballots 5,594 2.78
Majority 2,259 1.12
Registered electors 389,688
PTI hold Swing N/A

JUI-F, and JI contested as part of MMA

2022 by-election edit

A by-election was held on 16 October 2022 due to the resignation of Ali Muhammad Khan, the previous MNA from this seat.

By-election 2022: NA-22 (Mardan-III)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTI Imran Khan 76,681 50.01  20.88
JUI (F) Maulana Muhammad Qasim 68,181 44.46 N/A
JI Abdul Wasi 8,239 5.37 N/A
Independent Muhammad Sarwar 243 0.16
Turnout 155,208 32.94  18.65
Rejected ballots 1,864 1.20  1.58
Majority 8,500 5.54  4.42
Registered electors 471,184
PTI hold

JUI-F, and JI previously contested jointly as part of MMA

2024 general election edit

General elections were held on 8 February 2024.[7] Ali Muhammad Khan won the election with 102,188 votes.

General election 2024: NA-23 Mardan-III
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ali Muhammad Khan[a] 102,188 51.59  1.58
ANP Ahmad Khan 33,922 17.13 N/A
JUI (F) Kareem Ullah Khan 32,659 16.49  27.97
Others Others (eight candidates) 29,302 14.79
Turnout 203,177 44.35  11.41
Rejected ballots 5,106 2.51
Majority 68,266 34.47  28.93
Registered electors 458,114

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent

References edit

  1. ^ "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  2. ^ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2016-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ [1][dead link]
  5. ^ http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-10&type=NA [dead link]
  6. ^ "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2024-04-12.

External links edit